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This Friday, November 29, Cartagena Piensa has as guest the curator, critic and Art Historian José Mª Parreño.
Framed in one of the lines of debate in Cartagena Think, Thinking about the Ecosocial Transition, the talk he will offer is entitled 'We need new nannies.
Environmental humanities for a planet in crisis'.
It will be at 20:00 in the Josefina Soria del Luzzy Library, and will be presented by Ignacio Abad, a member of the Cartagena Piensa promoter group, a program organized by the Department of Culture.
Environmental crisis
Our way of life, which is on its way to destroy the planet, rests on a cultural basis and on a scale of values.
Both technological development and political decisions are conditioned by them.
The Environmental Humanities study this relationship of the cultural sphere with the environmental crisis.
And they warn us that in order to address the technological and economic changes with which to combat the environmental crisis, it will be necessary to transform our ideas of what is desirable and beautiful, of what is negligible and expendable.
The arts, in a broad sense, are fundamental tools for this task of modeling our imaginary.
In the book 'Environmental humanities: thought, art and stories for the century of the great test' (Books of the Waterfall, 2018), of which Parreño is co-author with José Albelda Raga) and José María Marrero Henríquez, defines the concept of Humanities Environmental:
"We will sing to the factories hanging from the clouds by the threads of their smokes," cried the Futurist Manifesto in 1918. They were times of the rise of industrialism and the cultural avant-garde manifested, in consonance, his admiration for speed and machine.
One hundred and ten years later, we must formulate a series of exactly opposite principles.
We are at a crucial moment, “the century of the Great Testâ€, in which the mitigation of climate change or an orderly transition to sustainable societies will not be possible without a complete change of values: diversity, simplicity, durability and The value of the next are some of them.
Environmental humanities encompass studies and proposals that share the cultural sphere with the environmental crisis.
They are humanities that do not understand their separation from science, and that can help us to imagine livable futures, not to trace unrealizable utopias or to predict apocalyptic scenarios.
It is about getting rid of the economy as a measure of all things and forging an alternative worldview, which places the achievement of the good life and the rebalancing of the biosphere as goals.
Scientists and activists do not cease to warn us of the civilizational collapse we are approaching, but the necessary social reaction is yet to come.
Therefore, the arts that reflect this change can guide us at this crossroads, in this great test: new ways of perceiving and feeling the environment can contribute, through emotion, to changing attitudes.
José María Parreño (Madrid, 1958) is Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid and writer.
He earned a PhD in Art History in 1995 with a thesis on Art and commitment in Spain 1980-1995. He has been Visiting Professor at Duke University (North Carolina).
From 1998, and until 2008, he was successively deputy director and director of the Esteban Vicente de Segovia Museum of Contemporary Art.
A year later, in 2009, he was appointed artistic director of the Artesonado Gallery (La Granja), a position he held until 2011.
He has worked as a critic of literature and art in the cultural supplements of the ABC and El Mundo newspapers.
He has published specialized articles in magazines such as La Balsa de la Medusa, Keys to Practical Reason, Revista de Occidente, insula, Arte y Parte, Exit ... He has been curator, among others, of the exhibitions A forest in works.
Vanguards in the Spanish wood sculpture (2000), La Noche.
Images of the night in Spanish art 1981 - 2001 (2001), Miradas de Mujer.
20 Spanish Photographers (2005), Frágil (2008) The artist in the city (2012), Parergon (2012) and Other Art (2013).
He has published several books of poetry, narrative and essay, among which they have a dance crying (2003), Travel of an unfriendly (2000), Arto de Arte (2005), 'A discontented art' (Murcia, Cendeac, 2006) and ' Pornography for insects' (PreTextos, 2014).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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